A Blog about Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana

Welcome to EagerELK, a blog about Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana. Browse through the posts below to get a feel for how you can use the ELK stack to solve your data problems. Also check out our white papers and resources in the links above.

This short guide will look at the Logstash IMAP input. IMAP is an alternative protocol to POP3 to fetch emails from a server. This input will allow you to retrieve emails from an IMAP account and process them using Logstash. Check out this post on using IMAP and...

Step by step guide to set up a Logstash development environment If you’re keen to contribute to the Logstash project, you can do so by either contributing to the main Logstash project or to any of the Logstash plugins. Which ever you choose, you’ll need to...

We all have that dream job, the one that pays enough, is in the right city and has the right perks. Yet we’re all so busy in our normal jobs that we have no time to keep a proper eye on all the job boards and postings available on the internet. To name but a...

Logstash comes with a number of plugins that interact with AWS, Amazon’s cloud infrastructure. This short guide will look at the configuration options for the Simple Notification Service (or SNS) output that will allow you to convert Logstash events to push...

Humans have an innate need to communicate. Most people want to talk to other people. Data geeks want to talk to data and hope at some point it starts talking back. Logstash can’t make your data talk (yet!), but it can at least make your server talk back to you....

Logstash comes with a number of plugins that interact with AWS, Amazon’s cloud infrastructure. This short guide will look at the common configuration options for these plugins. Quick Info Source: /lib/logstash/plugin_mixins/aws_config.rb Requirements: AWS...

The ELK stack is all about capturing data and reporting on it in a meaningful way. Tracking website visitors and traffic is also all about capturing data and reporting on it in a meaningful way. Since that’s the main aim of the ELK stack, you can very easily...